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[[File:BridezillaXDResized_3940.png|link=Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri|frame|This trope when taken [[Up to Eleven]].]]
 
Bridezilla is that creature a bride morphs into under the stress of wedding arrangements and unrealistic expectations, resulting in escalating demands and screeching outbursts about insignificant problems. Some say the [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|reptile]] forms when a normal woman is subjected to the immense pressure of planning a wedding; others say that the wedding-related stress simply reveals the worst of her character. Most agree, however, that the classic Bridezilla is the woman who believes the wedding is Her Day, meaning all revolt must be squelched and all whims indulged.
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Bonus points when the bride starts forgetting it's also the Groom to Be's day.
 
Related to [[Drunk Withwith Power]] and [[What You Are in Thethe Dark]]. Mostly occurs because [[It's All About Me]]!
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== [[Comics]] ==
* One Katie Ka-Boom story in the ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' comic featured this, with Katie acting as a bridesmaid at a cousin's wedding. The wedding stress gets so high that both Katie ''and'' her cousin, the bride, lose their tempers and transform into monsters. While they wreck the chapel with their fighting, their mothers bond over the idea of raising kids. ("You too?")
 
 
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== [[Film]] - Live-Action ==
* In ''[[Twenty Seven Dresses|27 Dresses]]'' the main character's younger sister exhibits some Bridezilla tendencies, but switches to full on Bridezilla mode when an article published in the Post describes her as a Bridezilla who is taking advantage of her sweet-natured, pushover older sister. The end result is the older sister snapping into a Bridemaidzilla, complete with the destroying the dress rehearsal like it was 1950s Tokyo.
* The entire film ''[[Bride Wars]]'' is based on this trope. <s> Unfortunately</s> Predictably, it did not do it well; Bridezilla vs Bridezilla is a ropey second-string [[Monster Mash]] and, as [[Alien vs. Predator|AVP's]] tagline put it, "Whoever wins, we lose."
* Laura (Cameron Diaz) in ''[[Very Bad Things (Film)|Very Bad Things]]''. She is willing to commit murder to ensure that nothing spoils her dream wedding.
 
 
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* May Dionysus have mercy on your soul if you spoil [[True Blood|Maryann's]] special day.
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' became a literal bridezilla in one episode, when, following the advice of Cinderella, she became extremely demanding, causing her lower body to change into that of a dragon and making her breathe fire.
* Phoebe's wedding in ''[[Friends]]'' causes ''Monica'' to become <s>Bride</s> Maid-of-Honourzilla.
* Elliot in season 6 of ''[[Scrubs]]'' annoys her fiance and maid of honor by her obsessive controlling of the wedding arrangements and her outbursts at minor disasters (like the wrong font on the invitations).
** Carla in the same series had it to a lesser degree, especially when the ceremony didn't go quite as planned.
*** Wholly justified, as {{spoiler|the Groom didn't even make it to the ceremony.}}
* Donna Noble in the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' Christmas Special ''The Runaway Bride'', although in her case it was probably justified as the first thing to go wrong was her disappearing from the church and materializing in an alien spaceship, and it all went downhill from there.
* ''[[Night Court]]''. Public defender Christine Sullivan becomes this for her wedding preparations. In the end they all say stuff it and have a simple ceremony on the courthouse roof.
* There is now a reality TV show with this trope (''Bridezillas'') as the title. Every episode features brides-to-be being completely and unapologetically bitchy to their friends, family, and hired help up to, during, and after the wedding. [[Unfortunate Implications|At no point does anyone ever give any indication that her actions should be frowned upon in the show.]]
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* The subject of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpLnPEVl538 one episode] of ''[[Target Women]]'', which makes fun of reality shows like the aforementioned ''Bridezillas''. This is also apparently what Sarah wants her own wedding to be like, complete with a [[Godzilla]] impression.
* On ''[[Gilmore Girls]],'' Lorelai's [[Meddling Parents|Meddling Mother]] Emily helps Sookie plan her wedding with some rather extravagant suggestions, but Sookie gets too caught up with it to realize how expensive and bizarre the plans are becoming. Her fiancé begins to feel alienated and Sookie eventually goes into Bridezilla mode over the details on her invitations (or something), and Lorelai helps her to calm down.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Anya in the lead-up to her wedding day with Xander.
{{quote| '''Anya:''' "Planning this marriage is like staging the invasion of Normandy."<br />
'''Xander:''' "Without the laughs. We should have eloped."<br />
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Muriel, who marries Governor Derrick of Merry Cay, in ''[[Ghost PiratesofPirates of Vooju Island]]''.
 
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Parodied, [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and [[Averted Trope|averted]] in ''[[Ansem Retort]]''. The bride preparing for the wedding is remarkably calm, but a [[Kaiju]] [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|in a wedding dress]] destroys downtown.
{{quote| '''Bridezilla:''' I NEED A CAKE!}}
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Marge during her <s>second</s> third wedding to Homer, in ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Wedding for Disaster." Averted for her fourth, probably because they planned that one without her knowing.
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' Rarity suggests that it's the stress of the wedding planning that has made bride to be Princess Mi Amore "Cadence" Cadenza so rude to everyone in "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 1". {{spoiler|It transpires she's actually an [[Body Snatcher|evil]] [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|impostor]] seeking to control and cripple Canterlot's [[Barrier Warrior]].}}
 
 
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